Look, Peach, you know I’m always coming home to you but sometimes a man just has to have his Nep-Nep time, you know what I mean?

I’m not the world’s biggest Mario fan but this may have been the single costume that got the best reaction at work. I work with a ton of late-30s-early-40somethings and this tapped right into their nostalgia veins.

Then, when I got home from work, I got out of the car just as a little girl in a Mario outfit was walking down the street. I got a “Mom, look, it’s the real Mario!” which melted even my icy heart.